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To: Andrus <[email protected]>
To: pgsql-general <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: How to get single table data from backup
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:12:40 +0000
Message-ID: <0102019b37627d9c-03ffe58c-44b4-4245-8cde-fb8f84b97509-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com> (raw)
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On 19/12/2025 12:41, Andrus wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Large database backup is created using
>
> pg_dump -b -f backup.backup -F c
>
> How to restore single table in schema firma2 from it in Windows?
>
> Created database recovery and tried
>
> pg_restore --schema-only --n firma2 -d recovery backup.backup
> pg_restore -n firma2 -t tabletorecover -d recovery backup.backup
>
> This fails since tabletorecover contains lot foreign key references.
> Foreign keys refer to other tables which have foreign keys to another
> tables etc. making huge graph. All tables contain also data.
>
I haven't tried it, but - off the top of my head - how about:
(i) Create the table separately by hand, without the FK references.
(ii) Do a data-only restore, using the -a and -t options to pg_restore
Ray.
> I need to get table data only. Using PostgresSql 17 in windows.
>
> Andrus.
>
>
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Ray O'Donnell // Galway // Ireland
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